last update - 27th January 2012
- Cycling route provision in Bedworth Town Centre is non-existent. The planning department at the Borough council ignores cyclists when considering most planning applications. The county council is focusing all its cycling efforts on the south of the county and refuses to discuss cycling in Bedworth.I have had a year long battle to get legal & safe cycling routes round the new oversized Tesco in Bedworth. I have totally failed to have any influence on officers or councillors. Tesco have a lot of influence after giving around £1 million to the borough and Tesco is paying the county council around £1.1 million for the road changes to supply traffic to its car park. The Borough council hasd ignored the needs of cyclists, pedestrians and bus services when it granted planning permission with undue haste in 2010. The county council refuses to provide cycle lanes or controlled crossings around the Leicester street – George street Ringway junction. They have ignored their own policy in order to keep Tesco happy.Cycling is illegal going north on Leicester street. Tesco’s responses to a late cycle safety audit proposed cyclists should cut though the car park under the development and use pedestrian routes!